Civic eState

Pooling the urban commons

Civic eState
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THE MISSION

Co-Governance
Sustainable Urban Development
Inclusivity

The purpose of the network is to transfer through adaptation the Good Practice of the City of Naples, Lost & Found. This Transfer network aims at guaranteeing the collective enjoyment as well as collective management of urban essential facilities conceived as urban commons. This public-community governance approach will secure fair and open access, participatory decision-making, sustainability and preservation for the benefit of the future generations.

The whole journey of Civic eState in your hands

We strongly want to share the results of our work with you, that's why we gathered all this information in a presentation so you are able to get the whole picture of Civic eState.

The whole journey of Civic eState in your hands

Civic eState URBACT network cities have carried out a process to transfer a governance model for urban commons based on best practices from the city of Naples. The transfer journey methodology and themes were led by Christian Iaione as Lead Expert, and by the Naples municipality team as lead partner.  Through this tool the cities of the URBACT Civic eState network took a look back at their unique journeys to find perspective and reflect on their paths. Looking back allows the partners to look forward confidently, to focus on their outcomes and to map in real-time their steps and scenarios for the future to come. This exercise lasted 10 months (from March 2020 to December 2020) and included meetings, individual reviews and collective feedback sessions.

THE 5 DESIGN PRINCIPLES OF THE PROJECT

1. Collective Governance

This dimension refers to the presence of a multi-stakeholder scheme where the community (organized or not) emerges and partners up with public institutions and the private sector in the management of the urban commons.

2. Enabling State

It expresses the role of the State supporting and making the collective urban management possible.

3. Pooling Economies

It reveals the presence of autonomous institutions, managed or owned by local communities, operating within non-mainstream economic systems, such as collaborative, cooperative, circular economies, for the creation of new opportunities and services.

4. Experimentalism

This principle links to the presence of a site-specific and iterative bottom-up approach to design legal and policy innovations for the co-governance of the local urban commons.

5. Tech Justice

Open access to technological and digital urban infrastructure and data is an enabling driver of cooperation and co-creation of urban commons.

The design principles carved by the Civic eState project represent a tool to design urban justice and democracy and thereby also measure the implementation of some of the EU Urban Agenda priority themes, such as “Urban poverty”, in relation to which the Agenda states:
“Urban poverty refers to issues related to structural concentration of poverty in deprived neighbourhoods and solutions that need to be designed and applied with integrated approach: 1)Place-based solutions; 2) People-based solutions”;
or the priority theme “Housing” in relation to which the agenda states:
“The focus will be on public affordable housing, state aid rules and general housing policy”;
the priority theme “Climate Adaptation” in relation to which the Agenda states:
“anticipate the adverse effects of climate change and take appropriate action to prevent or minimise the damage it can cause to Urban Areas. The focus will be on: vulnerability assessments, climate resilience and risk management”.
Finally, it can also support the implementation of the Agenda’s provisions, such as p. 52, where the Ministers agree “to recognise the potential of civil society to co-create innovative solutions to urban challenges, which can contribute to public policy making at all levels of government and strengthen democracy in the EU”.
The design principles carved by the Civic eState project represent a tool to design urban justice and democracy and thereby also measure the implementation of some of the New Urban Agenda goals, such as goals 13 and 19, or the Sustainable Development goals 16 and 17, in particular the sub-goals 16.7, 17.17 and 17.19.

OUR NETWORK

Our network is composed by seven cities:

Naples

Gdansk

Barcelona

The network purpose is to transfer through adaptation the Good Practice of the City of Naples, Lost & Found. This Transfer network aims at guaranteeing the collective enjoyment as well as collective management of urban essential facilities conceived as urban commons. This public-community governance approach will secure fair and open access, participatory decision-making, sustainability and preservation for the benefit of future generations.

OUR NETWORK

Our network is composed by seven cities: Naples (Italy), Gdańsk (Poland), Barcelona (Spain), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Ghent (Belgium),
Iași (Romania), Presov (Slovakia). The network purpose is to transfer through adaptation the Good Practice of the City of Naples, Lost & Found. This Transfer network aims at guaranteeing the collective enjoyment as well as collective management of urban essential facilities conceived as urban commons. This public-community governance approach will secure fair and open access, participatory decision-making, sustainability and preservation for the benefit of future generations.

THE NETWORK

Our network is composed by seven cities: Naples (Italy), Gdańsk (Poland), Barcelona (Spain), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Ghent (Belgium), Iași (Romania), Presov (Slovakia).
The purpose of the network is to transfer through adaptation the Good Practice of the City of Naples, Lost & Found. This Transfer network aims at guaranteeing the collective enjoyment as well as collective management of urban essential facilities conceived as urban commons. This public-community governance approach will secure fair and open access, participatory decision-making, sustainability and preservation for the benefit of future generations.

PEOPLE FROM THE PARTNER CITIES

Magadalena Skiba

City of Gdansk

Pielechowski Michał

City of Gdansk

Albert Martín i Gómez

City of Barcelona

Pau Gonzàlez Val

City of Barcelona

Laia Forné Aguirre

City of Barcelona

Mauro Castro

City of Barcelona

Nathalie van Loon

City of Amsterdam

Sandra Blankhart

City of Amsterdam

Marcel Kampers

City of Amsterdam

Peter Formela

City of Presov

Zuzana Poklembova

City of Presov

George Marius Homocianu

City of Iași

Yoko Gesels

City of Ghent

Eleke Langeraert

City of Ghent

Emma Tytgadt

City of Ghent

Josefien Maes

City of Ghent

PEOPLE FROM Civic eState

Nicola Masella

Civic eState Project coordinator. Engineer and Urban Planner

Christian Iaione

Civic eState Lead Expert. Professor of Law & Policy of Innovation & Sustainability, Land Use, Urban Law & Policy, Smart Cities at Luiss

Gregorio Turolla

Graphic designer and activist based in Naples, Communication Officer of the Civic eState Network since November 2019

Levente Polyak

Ad Hoc expert Civic eState, Lead Expert CO4CITIES. Director of Eutropian.org

Simone D’Antonio

Ad Hoc expert Civic eState. Responsible for the communication activities of the National Dissemination Point of URBACT for Italy

Liat Rogel

Ad Hoc Expert Civic eState

Roberta Nicchia

Urbact Local Group Coordinator city of 
Naples – Civic eState, Architect and Urban Planner

Giuseppe Micciarelli

Post-doc Researcher in political-legal philosophy, University of Salerno, President of the Urban Commons Observatory in Naples

PEOPLE

Nicola Masella

Civic eState Project coordinator. Engineer and Urban Planner

Christian Iaione

Civic eState Lead Expert. Professor of Law & Policy of Innovation & Sustainability, Land Use, Urban Law & Policy, Smart Cities at Luiss

Gregorio Turolla

Graphic designer and activist based in Naples, I’m the communication officer of the Civic eState Network since november 2019

Elena De Nictolis

Adjunct Professor of Governance of Innovation & Sustainability at Luiss and Post-doctoral Researcher at the Department of Political Science. Research fellow ofLabGov.City

Alessandro Antonelli

Vice-President of LabGov.City. Teaching Assistant Law and Policy of Innovation and Sustainability, Governance of Innovation and Sustainability, Assistant to the Chair of Urban Law and Policy, Smart Cities, Department of Law at Luiss

Giuseppe Micciarelli

Post-doc Researcher in political-legal philosophy, University of Salerno, President of the Urban Commons Observatory in Naples

Levente Polyak

Ad Hoc expert Civic eState, Lead Expert CO4CITIES. Director of Eutropian.org

Simone D’Antonio

Ad Hoc expert Civic eState. Responsible for the communication activities of the National Dissemination Point of URBACT for Italy

Liat Rogel

Ad Hoc Expert Civic eState

Roberta Nicchia

ULG Coordinator of Naples

Elena Bagnera

Tommaso Dumontel

Federica Muzi

Student in Law, Digital Innovation and Sustainability

Alessandro Fiastri

Law, Digital Innovation and Sustainability Student at Luiss University; Digital platform team

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